looking around the campus garden this morning is seems obvious that i am, for the nonce at least, the only gardener ( "garden steward" is the official title...this strikes me as pretentious...i could editorialize about human stewardship of the planet...however the quality of that endeavor is apparent to any but the most politically obdurate and/or obtuse ) in attendance...it is not too early...
things are moving along in the garden anyway...
the alfalfa in my bed has made significant progress since my last visit...
as has the einkorn wheat i planted...it won't be the largest stand of wheat, however it will be by far the oldest dna in the garden...
native plants were making another appearance in the unplanted segment of the bed so i turned and hoed it again...
and, in what seems to be becoming an habitual behavior, i turned up yet another elmer's blue spud which i replanted in the area already populated by replanted volunteers...an unintended population but what do you do?
around the corner and down the row from my bed i found news from the asparagus...it has survived a year and change without human intervention ( not entirely unexpected given the size of the plants that had died back last season ) and that makes me a pleased gardener...
it is up and running in a variety of sizes...
some of which were ready to harvest...once the harvest season is over and the asparagus "ferns" i will be compsting it heavily to make up for a lost year of feeding and since it is up my frequency of visits will increase...over the next month and a half there will be an incresed population in my bed...the exact demiographic of that population is in flux because of external demands...the original concept of all green manures has been pretty much scrapped ( although i will be planting a few cowpeas )...inputs of compost will have to substitute...however, aside from the volunteer spuds, you can expect a raft of plants that are not traditional vegetable garden denizens.
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